“Touch $$$ on 3”
- Thread starter Possum
- Start date
I am touching my money. Ticket and NIL money - until the program acts like it gives a damn. Good advice, guys!
id have no problem with this if they were good
If they were paid accordingly to their performance on the court, they'd be touching an EBT card on 3.
Oweh showing his hand again!!
“bad hands” lol.
He just “never can finish”. Lol
“bad hands” lol.
He just “never can finish”. Lol
Every player on this team is a disgrace to the players that came before.
Pope I love you as a player and part of this program history but you cannot do this job.
Back and forth I go and a lot of ppls opinions change but I so wanted to believe you could do this job. You are not honoring the coaches who dedicated their lives to Kentucky basketball.
Pope I love you as a player and part of this program history but you cannot do this job.
Back and forth I go and a lot of ppls opinions change but I so wanted to believe you could do this job. You are not honoring the coaches who dedicated their lives to Kentucky basketball.
I literally hate every player on this team now. Shove that "touch money" up your ***. Kentucky basketball is OVER at this point. RIP.
After watching this video, and Mark Pope governing over this so called team, everything make sense.
I am done with Mark Pope.
I would not be surprised if his touch money boys aren’t also shaving points.
Such a shame. Pope and all his staff need to resign.
I am done with Mark Pope.
I would not be surprised if his touch money boys aren’t also shaving points.
Such a shame. Pope and all his staff need to resign.
The fact these kids have no reservations and seem proud to behave like this, reflects terribly on Pope.
Honestly, I cannot think of anything positive to say about UK basketball presently or future.
Honestly, I cannot think of anything positive to say about UK basketball presently or future.
Same with football, it’s everywhere. I’m gonna blame it on Barnhart though ‘cause he ***** up everything he touches.
It’s not surprising that this mentality has taken hold in this NIL/mass free agency era where players sell themselves to the highest bidder every year.
Today’s players are never really taught that they should be loyal to anything other than themselves and their bank account.
Today’s players are never really taught that they should be loyal to anything other than themselves and their bank account.
You can’t have it both ways….well
I guess technically you can but it’s still hypocritical
where are all the “they are treated like slaves” crowd at? If the coach
Can leave unabated ….why not the player …crowd
This unabashed buying guys with annual free agency, now we’ve got guys taking money and sitting out games (Quandenance) and Pope’s message about the front of the jersey is hollow …but even if it were Dan Hurley ….he can’t claim anything different
To those that lamented the players deserve this (aka Matt Jones) rhis is what makes a bad season unbearable to imagine 22M is just ten times worse. Fans are starting to walk away in general from the sport and it will continue to lower in fan support
What is the origin of the phrase " touch money"?
I'm sure they're copycating it from somewhere.
I'm sure they're copycating it from somewhere.
What’s unsettling is how apathetic they are. Completely passionless, like their coach.
They deserve to have to pay money to play here. That’s how awful they are.
Amen.
And I am going to add : (runt's rant #12,759 and counting...)
This mentality is indicative of the utter lack of pride, heart, passion, soul, and conscience that this team plays with.
The LSU and UT victories were sheer luck, after actually giving a damn and starting to play like they half assed knew basketball, actually had any real "talent" (and was coached how to play it) AND hey, they absolutely get credit for coming back far enough to even have a chance to lead in the games ( all of what, 89 seconds over the two games ?!? lol) to put themselves in the position for a miracle finish to win the game. Can you imagine had they went on to lose only those two games by 17, 18 points each, what the situation would be right now? I shudder to think.
Barnies head will have rolled already. Pope's too. I dunno what happens to the players, but nobody that has started a game will ever step foot on the court again, and we will finish the season with the walkons, because they have at least some pride to give a damn and give everything they can to hang tough.... jeezuz ... I dunno ...
Then they came home played lackluster and pitifully painful to watch, eeking out a couple narrow wins INSIDE RUPP.
Strut and puff yer chest now, young men " Show me the money !!!"
Then it's back to the road to coast to get that $$$ .... and get beaten and embarrassed by 25.
NO PRIDE, NO HEART, NO GUTS, JUST A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A TEAM.
I have been a UK faithful fan for 50+ years. Was here during the probation years and ALL of the changes great and small since the mid 70's. The worst team I thought I would ever see play was the 1989-90 team.
Then CCC came along and gave us the 2020 - 2021 (covid year) and everyone thought it was an aberration and blamed COVID. I didn't I went off on CCC at that point, and the next 5 years proved I was absoutely 100% correct that his *** should have been gone THEN. But no, everyone wanted to give him a raise and extension so the asshat could collective **** on the program so he could put us basketball bennies down and leave town in the night like a thief....
This team only trails those two teams, it just passed the 2012-2013 CCC disaster we once called "our team" in my estimation .... And doncha' just remember what CCC promised after THAT season ? remember it, remember it ..... ahhhh, please do remember it. What an egotistical, rigid, self absorbed jerkoff CCC the human being is. Never honor him by putting his name in the rafters, at least until I ( and he) is dead. He does not deserve it for how he left. PERIOD.
Now you got a 7 loss (and mounting) team of primadonnas with little real talent and no heart, soul, or pride WHATSOEVER - for themselves or the university out there dippin' out of town after town after getting thier asses handed to them, all the while celebrating getting that $$$.
enjoy your payday, you losers.
And that goes for a man that I respect and think so very highly of, Coach Mark Pope.
At this point, I expect you to follow suit with your players ( thier behavior and actions are indicative of how and what values they are being taught, from thier families to you, coach), celebrate getting a paycheck and that all important severance package for a buyout money, instead of doing an honorable and possibly the only thing that could salvage my opinion of him, which would be to announce him leaving the program at the end of the year (or immediately, even would be better) and saying " No I love Kentucky, keep the money, I'm alright. I failed and would give back last year's salary as well, if anyone would think it would help the University to move on from my abysmal failure..... I am utterly and abjectly sorry and I apologize to BBN that I could not rise to overcome the myriad challenges and difficulties of this job. I was thrust into the most difficult situation imaginable, and I tried my best, I really did."
And at least I could accept that.
If you are watching this video, you have to be outraged if you care at all about integrity and pride or honor in ANYTHING remotely concerned with the University of Kentucky at this point. If you don't, then you are helping condone this kind of mentailty and teaching exactly the WRONG lesson in the worst way possible.
Think about it.
I would so much rather have it return to the days where a handshake and a hundred dollar bill would be exchanged after a game than what this era of NIL (the era of ME) giving "the entitled generation" that this has become, into a "sport" where 17 and 18 year old children are running the show into the proverbial *********. COLLECTIVELY.
The inmates HAVE FINALLY TAKEN OVER the asylum. And the NCAA is now totally limp and impotent in the face of the onslaught of the monster that has been created. By themslves and thier own actions, to the greed of the players, to the greed of the networks (ahem - ESPN, I am looking at you) and a total lack of integrity and pride and honoring the sport that used to be.
College athletics is dead. It's all varying degrees of a "profession" now. If you can call it that.
I'll come to this board, where I have been for so very long, to follow our team and chat and watch it with my popcorn at my side. It's going to be really interesting now..... But as far as actually watching any games, or paying any real attention to actual games outcome, I have gotten over caring for that. As a fan, I'll pay it lip service, but UK hoops is now officially *dead* in the mind and ehart of so many BBN, it is a pathetic statement to have to say, but BBN has slowly been spirally downward, for a long time, even during CCC"s best years, he lost a lot of BBN support permanently even back then.....
All I want to see is how this drama turns out now. It's must see internet from the best seat in the house to see this happen from :
From The Rafters, my brothers and sisters .... right here.
So long as they keep this a free message board and don't also sell out, thus, ending our long friendships here and ending the last true place where us crazy RAFTARDS (and proud of it, by Gawd) have lived for so long.
I was here from the beginning, although I only lurked for years before joining "officially" making my first post. I was here long before that, as many of you have been as well.
I salute you, my friends. Long may we be able to remain here and have the freedom to express ourselves, no matter the insane opinions of myself and many others, for all of BBN has a place here, if you truly ask me.
And if you were to ask me about where is the heart and soul of kentucky basketball? Who is it with ? .... I would say :
WE are the heart and soul of Kentucky basketball ...
Not the players, coaches, AD's, or administrations over all these years ...
It's THE FANS, US, that make BBN, it's not the other way around. It's always been that way.
That's why eventually, Kentucky will return to the top ... someday. Because BBN will not allow itself to die and become irrelevant (ahem - like IU) Those of us that truly love something as genuinely and sincerely as WE DO, will never allow Kentucky basketball to die, we love it TOO DAMN MUCH NOT TO.
Nobody moves the needle. WE ARE THE NEEDLE.
And we will be back. Much to the haters' chagrin. (although it sure appears much much later than sooner, unfortunately)
Lots of work to do around here.
Starts at the top this time :
AD
and on down from there.
So buckle up and buckle down folks, the rough times are back in spades this time, and we know who to blame ...
HINT : it sure isn't the fans and it isn't the coaches fault for trying to accomplish something when he was clearly chucked in the deep end in way over his head. CMP lived the dream as a player, and now, the nightmare of being a failed coach here. I love him and will always wish him well.
Speaking of which, it occurs to me, he will most certainly be given another year by the current people in charge of shenanigans at UK, and I think next year we will see such a disastrous season and outcome that might possibly be the worst season in the history of Kentucky basketball for BBN fans to endure - for all time. If this season doesn't turn out to be it.
Runt's rant - OFF
Peace and harmony, BBN, Love you all. Let them know and hear your grief, despair and outrage at the top. Make it so loud they cannot NOT take action. Those that are deserving of it, I say let them have it full tilt.
Last edited:
This is all I need to know about these losers. Are you effing kidding me?
Nickname for this team… The Touch Money Losers.
Nickname for this team… The Touch Money Losers.
How does Pope let this go on?
He's a weak leader. That's how
This isn‘t what most teams do. I guarantee Vandy’s team doesn‘t do this. How Pope lets this go on is embarrassing.
Wow, I‘m just truly blown away, the moral fiber of collegiate sports is dead, there’s zero loyalty or respect, it’s about one thing, money. I hardly post on here lately, just separating myself from all of this, I would never want to see my now adult children act like this, it would tell me I failed them as a parent throughout their youth. Pope has been an absolute disaster and ultimately, he’s about the money as well, in this ecosphere, it’s all that matters. I’ve stopped watching games and will think back to the good ole years, this is a total disgrace and **** show. Pope should be terminated effective immediately, he’s failed at the most important aspect, leadership.
Starting to think Oweh is a turd.
NIL is going to start getting players killed. These aren't contracts with corporations, it's donations from people you don't know. It's not smart to take money from people you don't know and some of the people donating to your salary are psychotic.
24-12
14-7
38-19
67% winning percentage.
9 percentage points below the historic average.
Failure of a season.
Failure of a roster.
Failure of a head coach.
Failure of an athletic director.
Failure of a program.
14-7
38-19
67% winning percentage.
9 percentage points below the historic average.
Failure of a season.
Failure of a roster.
Failure of a head coach.
Failure of an athletic director.
Failure of a program.
9-16 team never did stupid **** like this. Sadly, this team just moved into their spot for my least favorite team ever.
The biggest failure is the lack of giving a ****. Never seen a team more checked out represent Kentucky ever. Ever.
College sports is a ***** house its disgusting
Well the team officially has its name..” Team Touch Money” or some like variant.
I don’t think Pope would observe a problem with this, nor more importantly know how to shut it down to refocus the team.
Pope, for all his perceived intelligence, is a complete moron at leading people. It happens all the time in corporate world. The most intelligent people on paper aren’t the smartest and often can’t not lead people to a desired outcome.
It is almost like Pope has a screw missing, a cognitive disorder and/or Asperger’s.
I don’t think Pope would observe a problem with this, nor more importantly know how to shut it down to refocus the team.
Pope, for all his perceived intelligence, is a complete moron at leading people. It happens all the time in corporate world. The most intelligent people on paper aren’t the smartest and often can’t not lead people to a desired outcome.
It is almost like Pope has a screw missing, a cognitive disorder and/or Asperger’s.
Well we have a team name to consider.
Team Touch Money.
Open to other options so please offer suggestions.
Team Touch Money.
Open to other options so please offer suggestions.
Not trying to defend their play (it was so atrocious that I stopped watching in the first half), but does anyone even know for sure what the team means with the phrase?
Argue with results all you want, but I highly doubt the coaching staff is encouraging the team to pump themselves up for a game with a chant about a paycheck...if they are, then I will eat crow, but I can't believe they would condone MUCH LESS have the UK Sports video dept post it to act like it's a great thing.
Argue with results all you want, but I highly doubt the coaching staff is encouraging the team to pump themselves up for a game with a chant about a paycheck...if they are, then I will eat crow, but I can't believe they would condone MUCH LESS have the UK Sports video dept post it to act like it's a great thing.
“Did the check clear” should be the next team breakdown before the Arkansas game.
Just Google it, there are lots of explanations and NONE of them could be considered positive for fans that want “winning” to be the priority.
If it's true that UK Spent $22 million on this roster, then Team Money for Nothing would be more than appropriate.
I've suspected Oweh was one of the primary problems with this team and probably right in the middle of whatever happened before the L'ville game. His pre-season hype was way overdone given his limitations. I've also never liked the way he carries himself as he reeks of undeserved, self serving arrogance. I think most players on the team do care and are trying but are simply not talented enough to make a difference. And, I suspect there are a couple other cancers in addition to Oweh.
Can someone please add some context to what I just watched? Where/ when was this taken? Before a game? After a game?
Please tell me this wasn’t after last nights *** beating for the ages
Apparently right before coming onto the court last night.
'Touch Money' video has BBN worried about this team's mentality
Before the disaster against Vanderbilt unfolded, the media and the Kentucky team were in the tunnel together. We know this team has a problem with lackadaisical
wildcatbluenation.com